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Letters Patent No. 74,005, dated February 4, 1868.

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Be it known that we, ANDREW RnNsrn'rLsn and Ansssr WINnacK, of the city and county otK Peoria, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and usefnlMachine for Cottondtidgingl and Cultivating, called Cotton- Rdging Plough and Cultivator'; and we do hereby declare that the foll'owingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationot the same, reference being had to'tbe annexed drawings, making a part of this specicatien, in which-.- t

Figure 1 is o perspective view. l

Figure 2, a. plan.

Figure 3, a side elevation.

Figure 4, birds-eye view of plough.

Figure 5, perspective view of shovel.

Figure-6, elevation (front and side) of bracket (on rear of posts G and H.)

Figure 7, diagrams of link. v

QF or cultivating cotton, this machine is used without' the -central'beamiand shovel. For ridging out soil'for planting cotton, the shovel comes into use.

The frame of this machine consists of three wooden beams, AJB C, fivey feet-long each', and thr'ee inches-by three anda half inches square, placcd parallel to each other. l'.lo'the outer beams A C'the' common-shaped plough K L is attached, and to the centre beam B the shovel M, for cleaning -,out the furrow, is hung. Thev beams .A B C are connected by-throe transverse iron gang'es.of three-eighths thickness, and about one and a half inches wide by twenty-four inches in length. Two of these, D E, run across 4the'fol'wurd ends ofthe three beums, about eight inches apart, each gouge lhaving three' bolt-holes in each of its ends, for regulating' the width between. the ploughs 'rn cultivating, &c. Both gauges are bolted throughl their ends to the outer'` beams A C,`throngi1' cither of saidhcles, according to width of furrow required. The front gauge D is also bolted thr'oughits centre to the central beam. Under this gauge, hud below thel three'beams A B C, is another gouge P, ot" same size, to support'thc middle beam carrying thel shovel when wanted Afor ridging." The rear gauge F is also bolted to each becmin thesame manner-,ond is situated -just forward of thle,.plough-handles,

and supports the rear of central beam 'B which carries' the shovel.I The outerbeinris, at'the'ir front ends, have hinges connecting them with the posts G H, to which are attached thetongue J and wheels O. They consist of. y plates of iron, b b, the link a, and bracket e, the iron plate b b' perforated with4 three holes, (either of whichf4 is used when altering the width of furrows,) which is let'into the ends' of beams C A, and fastened with-bolts.

This plate b b is connected with the ironplink a by bolt. The link has jaws or openings at each extremity,

admitting said plate on one side, and the brackets e on the other. The plate b b is about veinches wideby .one-half inch thick, and pierced, as before said, with three lzoles i'or connection* with link, the holes being for accommodation of wider or narrower gauge. I The link ais of sucient size, say four incheslong, to connect strongly the two parts of the machine. The upright iron brackets c chave three holes one above the other, l

through either of which the link is bolted, and being or the purpose of raising or lowering the depth ofV furrow; The posts G H, about the same size as the other timbers, ure braced together bythe cross-beam I, and are carried by the wheels 0 on axles k k, bolted to outside of posts.4 Thiscross-beam carries the tongue J, which is further braced by the iron rods ij o p to lower ends of -posts' G H, and -carries on its rear end the hook f, which is hooked nto tbefring e on the gauge E, when Vturningthe Amachine orleavingtheeld, and which ,ritises` the pioughs or shovels from-thc ground. The wheels O-are ot wood enit-on, say sixteen inches in diameter, and

about two feet apart., The shovel. M is attached to Dra-ce Q on rear end of centre beam B, and is of cast steel, say' seven incheshigh by sixteen inches wide, having a convex surface, and throwing the soil (left by and between the ploughs) into ridges on both sides, the ploughs L K :it the same time throwing up adjoining ridges on each sidet' The operation of the machine is as follows: When wanted for ridging thel cotton-field the two ploughs and the shhvel are used together. -Wh'enfor cultivating, the centre besm,with shovelpis removed by simply removing the bolts in the gauges in front and rear, D Ji. When turning st the end of furrow or other places, the frame is`hookcdto the tongue by means ofthe hookfand ring e, and the gauges D E F being fastened but `by one bolt at cach of their ends to thelonterr timbers C, allow the machine tqladapt itself to the arcin which tbe-horses are moving, by parallel motion in each timber, as represented at the dotted lines in iig. 2 of drawi ing, and 'moving altogether on eight joints.v The machine is drawn by two horst-mond is capable of doing better worlc, more expeditiously, and consequently save more laborl than .by the present mode of using a. single plough for both-ridging :md cultivating cotton. l V

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letbers Patent, is* The construction, combination, and.arrangement of the framepicces A B C, tho iron Igaugepcees D E F,l

hook and ring, and removable shovel M. as attached to the beam or picco D, all as shown :md for the 'purposes desci'ibed.

\ ANDREW RUNSTETLER,

A ALBERT WINDECK.

Witnesses:

E. THURLow, N. BAKER. 

